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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term which embodies the emotional and spiritual experience that occurs in great tragedies?
(a) Relief.
(b) Catharsis.
(c) Tears.
(d) Exhaustion.

2. The aim of acting exercises and improvisation in rehearsals is always the same, according to the actor, which is what?
(a) To find a system of Truth.
(b) To get away from Deadly Theatre.
(c) To aid in remembering lines.
(d) To forget their worries.

3. The Rough Theatre deals with men's what?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Souls.
(c) Actions.
(d) Love.

4. In what Shakespearean play does the "very subtle construction hinges on the key moment when a statue comes to life"?
(a) Midsummer Night's Dream.
(b) A Winter's Tale.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) King Lear.

5. "Anyone interested in processes in the natural world would be very rewarded by a study of" what?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Theatre conditions.
(c) Acting.
(d) Playwriting.

Short Answer Questions

1. In performance, what is the relationship the author establishes?

2. The strongest comedy is rooted in what?

3. Which actor "is reaching inside himself for an alphabet that is also fossilized, for the language of signs from life that he knows is the language not of invention but of his conditioning"?

4. After a production of Love Labour's Lost, what did the author throw out and never work with again?

5. The author writes of the architecture of theatres in saying, "as for theatres, the problem of design cannot start" how?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author approach form and content between the actor and director?

2. How does the author feel that Brecht approaches the "Holy"?

3. What does the author point out about the source of conflict in Shakespeare's work?

4. What is the difference and similarity between a "Happening" and "alienation"?

5. How does the author compare the cinema to the theatre?

6. How does the author approach the concept of liberation with Shakespeare and Brecht?

7. How does the author discuss the process of theatre design?

8. What is the difference in world view between Brecht and Shakespeare?

9. Who is Bertolt Brecht and what was his major contribution to the modern theatre?

10. In contemporary theatre, what does the author say is the most accessible way to find "holiness"?

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